[luci] can i use luci as admin front-end for non-openwrt ARM system?

[Steven Barth]

Hi Robert,

cross-compiling itself should not be a big deal. The Makefiles you use for 
compiling things locally are the same that are used for cross compiling. Only 
the parameters / environment is different, meaning you have to set the c-
compiler (CC) the linker (LD) and so on to the appropriate cross-compilers 
while building and make sure you have an appropriate cross-compiling toolchain 
for the platform. In the end its the standard-procedure of cross-compiling on 
Linux. There is also no need for autotools in LuCI.

You should in theory be able to use all the components in other Linux 
environments however the more high-level parts (form generation / validation) 
are specifically designed for the universal configuration interface (UCI) which 
is used by OpenWrt and which requires translation to the application-specific 
configuration formats before running (this is if you use LuCI to configure 
applications on your device).


Regards,

Steven






Am Freitag 23 Juli 2010, 12:16:02 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
>   hi, new to luci so this is potentially a dumb question -- can i
> cross-compile luci and use it as the graphical admin front-end for an
> arbitrary ARM system?  specifically, technologic's TS-7260 board:
> 
> http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7260
> 
>   i understand that i'd undoubtedly have to write new modules that
> are appropriate for such a system, but is this even doable?
> 
>   as a start, i checked out the svn trunk of luci to my ubuntu 10.04
> system, had to install a new packages:
> 
>   * libtk_img
>   * bwidget
>   * lua5.1, liblua5.1-0, liblua5.1-0-dev
> 
> then as the first experiment i ever run, i just try to natively
> compile the source.
> 
>   from the Makefile, i first tried
> 
>   $ make gccbuild
> 
> which seemed to work fine, after which:
> 
>   $ make luabuild
> 
> which also seemed to compile just fine (again, this is a native build
> on a 64-bit ubuntu x86 system, so i'm just experimenting with the
> build process).
> 
>   at that point, just following along in the Makefile, i ran:
> 
>   $ make runhttpd &
> 
> and i can browse to localhost:8080/luci
> 
> and get the luci screen.  and that's where i am now, which was all
> fairly straightforward, but at this point, what are my options for
> cross-compiling for a non-Openwrt system?  thanks.
> 
> rday
> 
> p.s.  i will, quite possibly, have more beginner-level questions later
> after i read more of the docs.